C. Flanagan Flynn, a 2018 finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize and a Pushcart Nominee, is Managing Editor of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers and Brain, Teen: The Magazine for Thinking Parents. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Memoir Magazine, Literary Itinerary, and Boomer Magazine. She’s also been featured in The Hartford Courant and is a writing/publishing panelist for CCSU’s The Power of the Pen and Bay Path University’s Spring Writers’ Day.

A former proofreader for Funk & Wagnalls Encyclopedias and Weekly Reader Magazine, she’s edited nonfiction and fiction books published by Macmillan, Penguin Random House, and New World Library, most recently bestselling novelist Matthew Dicks’ book, Storyworthy, a nonfiction book on story crafting. She’s a sought-after copywriter whose clients have included NBA players and global brands such as Coca-Cola and Seagram’s.

She holds a M.A.L.S. from Wesleyan University and has studied writing at such institutions as Harvard University, Yale University, Mount Holyoke College, Trinity College, and literary hubs including Grub Street, Catapult, and The Mark Twain House. She’s performed her essays live at Infinity Hall and The Connecticut Historical Society.